Athena in 2008

2008, so far, is 97% worth living.

In 2005, Athena did 16 things, went 7 places, met 0 people, and consumed 201 products.

Athena has written 3 year in review entries…

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug

January

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get a hair cut
  2. graduate from college — completed 5 months later
  3. decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. grow my hair long — Worth doing!
  2. bake cookies
  3. read a book in a day
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. Learn Spanish
Read:
  1. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. David Boring — Worth consuming!
  3. These Three Remain: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman
  4. Shortcomings — Worth consuming!
  5. American Born Chinese Jacketed Hardcover Edition — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Bad Education (Original Uncut NC-17 Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Enduring Love (Widescreen Edition)
  3. Training Day — Worth consuming!
  4. Beetle Juice
  5. Mars Attacks!
  6. Funny Face
  7. Batman Returns
  8. Doctor Zhivago
  9. Peter Pan (2-Disc Platinum Edition)
  10. The Devil Wears Prada
  11. Big Fish [Blu-ray]
  12. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  13. Sweeney Todd
  14. The Jungle Book (Two-Disc 40th Anniversary Edition)
  15. Sweeney Todd — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. meditate daily
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. exercise regularly — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  2. Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics)
  3. Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  4. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns — Worth consuming!
  5. The Magician's Nephew (adult) (Narnia)
  6. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Narnia)
  7. The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) — Not worth consuming
  8. The Horse and His Boy (adult) (Narnia)
  9. The Last Battle (adult) (Narnia)
  10. V for Vendetta — Worth consuming!
  11. A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
  12. Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin Classics)
  13. The Silver Chair (adult) (Narnia)
  14. Prince Caspian (Narnia)
  15. Animal Farm
Watched:
  1. Venus — Worth consuming!
  2. Snow Cake
  3. Snow Cake — Worth consuming!
  4. La Vie En Rose

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March

Added to 43 Things:
  1. get an ipod
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. take more naps
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Hong Kong International Airport — Worth visiting!
  2. Vancouver International Airport — Worth visiting!
  3. Ottawa International Airport — Worth visiting!
  4. Montréal-Trudeau International Airport — Worth visiting!
  5. Newark Liberty International Airport — Not worth visiting
  6. Warsaw International Airport — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. About a Boy — Worth consuming!
  2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics)
  3. Fever Pitch — Worth consuming!
  4. Blankets — Worth consuming!
  5. The Complete Maus
  6. High Fidelity: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  7. A Long Way Down — Worth consuming!
  8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
  9. Rebecca
  10. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  11. The Life and Times of Michael K
  12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
  13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) (Deluxe Edition)
Watched:
  1. Paris Je T'Aime — Worth consuming!
  2. The Darjeeling Limited — Worth consuming!
  3. American Gangster (2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Sense & Sensibility — Worth consuming!

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April

Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. read every book I own
Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Kingston
Read:
  1. Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  2. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Talk to Her (Hable con Ella) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Swan — Worth consuming!
  3. Becoming Jane — Worth consuming!
  4. Juno (Single-Disc Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. Across the Universe (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  6. Dan in Real Life — Worth consuming!
  7. Lars and the Real Girl — Worth consuming!
  8. I Am Legend (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. Masterpiece Theatre: Room With a View

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May

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Start a book of quotes that inspire me — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Bridge to Terabithia
  2. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  3. Pale Fire
  4. The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  5. Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves)
  6. Outlander — Worth consuming!
  7. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
  8. The Best American Comics 2006 (Best American) — Worth consuming!
  9. New Moon — Worth consuming!
  10. Twilight — Worth consuming!
  11. Cranford (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
  12. Outlander — Worth consuming!
  13. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life — Worth consuming!
  14. Eclipse — Worth consuming!
  15. Remember Me? — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  2. Adam's Rib — Worth consuming!
  3. All About My Mother — Worth consuming!
  4. Hellboy (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  5. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir — Worth consuming!
  6. Message in a Bottle
  7. Raise the Red Lantern
  8. Penelope — Worth consuming!
  9. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs DVD (Disney Platinum Edition) (2001)
  10. A World Without Thieves
  11. A Clockwork Orange (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  12. Tootsie (1982) (Ws Aniv Dub Sub Ac3 Dol)
  13. Lust, Caution (Widescreen NC-17 Edition) — Worth consuming!
  14. The Forbidden Kingdom [Theatrical Release]
  15. Cranford — Worth consuming!
Consumed:
  1. Rainman

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June

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn chinese — Worth doing!
  2. graduate from college — Worth doing!
  3. finish my degree — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
  2. Iliad and Odyssey boxed set
  3. Anil's Ghost: A Novel
  4. Beloved — Worth consuming!
  5. Promethea (Book 1) — Worth consuming!
  6. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
  7. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book)
  8. Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  9. Gilead: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  10. My Sister - Life (European Poetry Classics) — Worth consuming!
  11. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics)
  12. Gilead : A Novel — Worth consuming!
  13. The Giver (Newbery Medal Book)
  14. sandman series
  15. Holes
Watched:
  1. Punch-Drunk Love (Two Disc Special Edition) (Superbit Collection)
  2. Marty — Worth consuming!
  3. Coming Home — Worth consuming!
  4. Love in the Time of Cholera — Worth consuming!
  5. Boogie Nights — Worth consuming!
  6. Persepolis — Worth consuming!
  7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford — Worth consuming!
  8. Bee Movie (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  9. I'm Not There (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. Jumper (Single-Disc Edition)

→ See more from June

July

Added to 43 Things:
  1. have a career
  2. Make my parents proud
  3. live alone
  4. buy a bike
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Read more books
  2. create my own website
  3. Do ten full push-ups
  4. own a mac laptop
  5. bake a pie
  6. I want to brush my teeth every night
  7. learn to knit more than just scarves
  8. graduate college
Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. get my G license
Read:
  1. Iliad
  2. Promethea (Book 4) — Worth consuming!
  3. Alice in Wonderland
  4. Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
  5. Promethea (Book 3) — Worth consuming!
  6. Promethea (Book 2) — Worth consuming!
  7. Promethea - Book 5 (Promethea) — Worth consuming!
  8. The Giver
  9. Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (scholastic Classics) (Scholastic Classics) — Worth consuming!
  10. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
  11. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir — Worth consuming!
  12. Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Signet Classics, CT127)
  13. The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
  14. A Study in Scarlet — Worth consuming!
  15. The Sign of the Four — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. Rubber Soul
  2. Magical Mystery Tour
Watched:
  1. Psycho (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps
  3. Eat Drink Man Woman
  4. Bambi (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  5. Boogie Nights (New Line Platinum Series)
  6. Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. How To Marry A Millionaire
  8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  9. Howards End
  10. The Young Girls of Rochefort — Worth consuming!
  11. A Star Is Born
  12. Dark Victory (Restored and Remastered Edition)
  13. The Citadel (1938)
  14. Half Nelson — Worth consuming!
  15. Then She Found Me — Worth consuming!

→ See more from July

August

Marked as failed on 43 Things:
  1. stop procrastinating
Read:
  1. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics) — Worth consuming!
  2. On Love: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  3. The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) — Worth consuming!
  4. Breaking Dawn
  5. When You Are Engulfed in Flames — Worth consuming!
  6. Petite Anglaise — Worth consuming!
  7. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes — Worth consuming!

→ See more from August


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